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{{SPlantbox
| color = IndianRed
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|familia=Apocynaceae
| name = ''Plumeria''
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|genus=Plumeria
| image = Fruit Salad Plumeria-6001.jpg
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|common_name=Plumeria, Frangipani
| image_width = 240px
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|habit=tree
| image_caption = Plumeria 'Fruit Salad'
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|Min ht box=4
| growth_habit = [[Shrub]], Small Tree
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|Min ht metric=m
| high = 4-8 m
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|Max ht box=8
| lifespan = [[Perennial]]
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|Max ht metric=m
| exposure = Full Sun, High Shade
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|origin=tropical and subtropical [[Americas]]
| water = moderate
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|poisonous=sap
| features = Flowers, Fragrance
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|lifespan=perennial
| hardiness = Frost tender
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|exposure=sun
| usda_zones = vary
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|water=moderate
| sunset_zones = vary by species
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|features=flowers, fragrance
| regnum = Plantae
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|Temp Metric=°F
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
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|sunset_zones=vary by species
| classis = Magnoliopsida
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|image=Fruit Salad Plumeria-6001.jpg
| ordo = Gentianales
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|image_width=240
| familia = Apocynaceae
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|image_caption=Plumeria 'Fruit Salad'
| genus = Plumeria
   
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'''''Plumeria''''' is a genus which is known by the common name '''Frangipani''' in some places.
'''''Plumeria''''' (common name '''Frangipani'''; [[syn.]] ''Himatanthus'' [[Willd.]] ex [[Roem.]] & [[Schult.]]) is a small genus of 7-8 handsome and useful species native to tropical and subtropical [[Americas]]. Open plants have leathery, pointed leaves at the ends of the branches.  Flowers during warm seasons, and give clusters of large, showy, waxy flowers with a strong perfume.  ''Plumeria'' is related to the Oleander, ''[[Oleander|Nerium oleander]]'', and both possess poisonous, milky sap, rather similar to that of ''[[Euphorbia]]''.
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During warm periods, the plants will give strongly perfumed flowers, used in Hawaii to make leis.   
 
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''Plumeria'' flowers are most fragrant at night in order to lure [[sphinx moths]] to pollinate them. The flowers have no [[nectar]], and simply dupe their pollinators. The moths pollinate them by transferring pollen from flower to flower in their fruitless search for nectar.
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The genus consists of mainly deciduous shrubs and trees. ''P. rubra'' (Common Frangipani, Red Frangipani), native to [[Mexico]], [[Central America]], and [[Venezuela]], produces flowers ranging from yellow to pink depending on form or cultivar. From Mexico and Central America, ''Plumeria'' has spread to all tropical areas of the world, especially [[Hawaii]], where it grows so abundantly that many people think that it is indigenous there.
      
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